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Item 35098Self-Propelled Vehicles. A Practical Treatise on the Theory, Construction, Operation, Care and Management of all Forms of Automobiles.

(Automobiles) Homans, James E.

Price: $450

New York: Theo. Audel & Company, 1902. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Self-Propelled Vehicles. A Practical Treatise on the Theory, Construction, Operation, Care and Management of all Forms of Automobiles Add to Wish List

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Item 56172Automobile Catechism. For the Use of Owners and Drivers of Cars Fitted with Internal Combustion Motors.

(Automobiles) Jones, Forrest R, M. E.

Price: $150

New York: The Class Journal Company, 1906. First edition. The author was formerly the President of the Manhattan Automobile School. This was the first edition of a standard work reprinted and revised many times. Read More Item Details for Automobile Catechism. For the Use of Owners and Drivers of Cars Fitted with Internal Combustion Motors Add to Wish List

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Item 221203Metz 1916 Touring Car and Roadster Models: printed advertising broadside.

(Automobiles) Metz Company.

Price: $300

Waltham, MA: Metz Company, 1916. First edition. 1916 Metz Car Advertising Broadside. In 1893 C.H. Metz began working for Waltham Company, early auto manufacturers; in 1909 he bought the company and instituted a plan whereby the public could buy 14 separate packages and build their own car. This approach was..... Read More Item Details for Metz 1916 Touring Car and Roadster Models: printed advertising broadside Add to Wish List

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Item 35462The Art of Driving a Motor Car.

(Automobiles) Montagu, Lord.

Price: $200

London: The Car Illustrated, Ltd, 1907. Third Edition April 1907. Read More Item Details for The Art of Driving a Motor Car Add to Wish List

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Item 218175Catalog of Automobile Supplies Catalog A. 1910.

(Automobiles).

Price: $125

New York: E.J. Willis Company 8 Park Place, 1910. Read More Item Details for Catalog of Automobile Supplies Catalog A. 1910 Add to Wish List

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Item 242359Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption].

[Bourne, Samuel and Charles SHEPHERD].

Price: $1,250

[Lahore: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. # 2126. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views" (Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, p...... Read More Item Details for Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption] Add to Wish List

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Item 223238L'Aeronavtica Italiana Nell'Immagine 1487-1875. Bibliografia di Giusepee Boffito, con aggiunte di Paolo Arrigoni.

Caproni, Donna Timina.

Price: $1,500

Milan: Museo Caproni, 1938. First edition, one of 600 copies (500 of which are hors commerce, 100 for sale). Read More Item Details for L'Aeronavtica Italiana Nell'Immagine 1487-1875. Bibliografia di Giusepee Boffito, con aggiunte di Paolo Arrigoni Add to Wish List

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Item 322460The Columbus Carriage Mfdg. Co. Catalogue 16...Builders for the Trade of Vehicles of Every Description.

Price: $250

Columbus, Ohio: South High St and C.H.V. & T. Ry. Crossing, nd c. 1890s (Incorp. in 1889). Read More Item Details for The Columbus Carriage Mfdg. Co. Catalogue 16...Builders for the Trade of Vehicles of Every Description Add to Wish List

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Item 258441Les Merveilles de la Locomotion.

Deharme, Ernest.

Price: $300

Paris: Libraire Hachette et Cie, 1874. First edition. On China Paper. A work on the history and science of transportation, printed on China paper, from the Bibliothèque des Merveilles. Read More Item Details for Les Merveilles de la Locomotion Add to Wish List

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Item 316367Description des Expériences de la Machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu...

Faujas de Saint-Fond, Barthélemy.

Price: $3,000

Paris: Chez Cuchet, rue & hôtel Serpente, 1783. First edition. The first standard work of an aerostation, UNCUT. Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819), was a very successful lawyer whose interest in natural history led him to become a geologist. He developed his own theory of volcanoes in the massive folio..... Read More Item Details for Description des Expériences de la Machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu Add to Wish List

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Item 40490Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, n.p., November 1955.

Ford, Henry II.

Price: $300

Henry Ford II Praises Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Henry Ford's grandson and Chairman of the family firm, writes, “I enjoyed very much sitting for the pictures which you have taken...”. Eisenstaedt's 1955 portrait of Ford appears on page 202 of his WITNESS TO OUR TIME. Read More Item Details for Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, n.p., November 1955 Add to Wish List

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Item 30220Portrait Gallery of Early Automobiles.

Hornung, Clarence P.

Price: $125

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968. 100 Color Plates of Vintage Cars. Read More Item Details for Portrait Gallery of Early Automobiles Add to Wish List

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Item 237285Hupmobile Eight-Cylinder-Series E Instructions.

(Hupmobible).

Price: $75

Detroit: Hupp Motor Car Corp, [March, 1927]. Read More Item Details for Hupmobile Eight-Cylinder-Series E Instructions Add to Wish List

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Item 313022The Log of the Automobile. Records and Observations by the Owner.

Price: $350

Boston: Bookcraft Company, 1902. From the library of Charles Edison. From the library of Charles Edison (1890-1969), son of Thomas A. Edison and Governor of New Jersey from 1941-1944. This was probably Thomas's Log book A relic of the early days of the automobile, the log consists of printed forms..... Read More Item Details for The Log of the Automobile. Records and Observations by the Owner Add to Wish List

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Item 318195The First London Underground Trip.

(London Underground).

Price: $4,500

London: May 24, 1862. Rare photograph of the London Underground before it opened. "Edgware Road Station" along with an open railroad car filled with dignitaries including Lord Richard Grosvenor, Earl (Sixth) Macclesfield, Mr. Chas Wood, Amsburey, Lord Werlock(?), Sir Stephen Elgin, Mr. Gladstone, M.P., Mr. I Fowler (Engineer) in white..... Read More Item Details for The First London Underground Trip Add to Wish List

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Item 231437The Atlantic Ferry, its Ships, Men, and Working.

Maginnis, Arthur J.

Price: $250

London: Whittaker & Co. N.Y. Macmillan, 1892. First Edition. Read More Item Details for The Atlantic Ferry, its Ships, Men, and Working Add to Wish List

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Item 53653The Motor that went to Court.

Penfield, Frederic Courtland.

Price: $450

[New York]: Privately Printed, Christmas 1909. First edition, presentation copy to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt. Printed at the De Vinne Press. A luxuriantly illustrated account of motoring in Spain at the turn of the century, a tale of misadventures and elegance, and an encounter with Spanish royalty. Read More Item Details for The Motor that went to Court Add to Wish List

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Item 238454The Practical Auto School. Home Study Course. General Overview. Lessons1-10 in separate booklets. Advanced Course Automobile Selling.

Price: $150

New York: The Practical Auto School Coffee Exchange Building, 1912-1913. Read More Item Details for The Practical Auto School. Home Study Course. General Overview. Lessons1-10 in separate booklets. Advanced Course Automobile Selling Add to Wish List

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Item 304786Practical Automobile Instruction.

Price: $75

New York: Automobile School West Side Y.M.C.A, 1910. Read More Item Details for Practical Automobile Instruction Add to Wish List

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Item 25349“W. Freeborn's system of Articulated Locomotives”: detailed engineering drawing, pen and ink on thin prepared translucent cloth, signed “J.H. Müller...

(Railroads).

Price: $3,500

New York: Ca. 1880. Superb Ca. 1880 Railroad Engineering Drawing. A beautiful cut-away engineering drawing consisting of four studies; front, head-on view; back view; and two side views of a steam locomotive, with cow-catcher, top bell, and ornamented headlight, done with meticulous skill. Possibly used in a patent application, for..... Read More Item Details for “W. Freeborn's system of Articulated Locomotives”: detailed engineering drawing, pen and ink on thin prepared translucent cloth, signed “J.H. Müller Eng. 25 Chambers Str. del” Add to Wish List

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Item 220983Color Lithograph: Advertising poster for Goodrich and Palmer Tires, titled “Ruth,” depicting a young woman seated on a bed, holding...

(Tires) Corcos, V[ittorio Matteo] (1859 - 1933, Italian).

Price: $1,250

Akron, Ohio: The B.F. Goodrich Company, 1901. Read More Item Details for Color Lithograph: Advertising poster for Goodrich and Palmer Tires, titled “Ruth,” depicting a young woman seated on a bed, holding flowers and a letter Add to Wish List

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Item 239259Volkswagen Brochure. "The Volkswagen Transporter Line"

(Volkswagen).

Price: $300

Wolfsburg: [1953]. This is brochure for the first generation of the VW Type 2 (Bus) with the split windshield, called the Microbus or Splittie among modern fans, was produced from March 8, 1950 through the end of the 1967 model year. This brochure is dated "11/53" Read More Item Details for Volkswagen Brochure. "The Volkswagen Transporter Line" Add to Wish List

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